Vals AI finds profanity in Inkling 2 Small reasoning logs
What happened
On November 8, 2026, The Decoder reported that Vals AI researchers examined the thinking logs of Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small across benchmarks. The review covered 13 benchmarks and 2,655 runs. Fifty runs contained the English word "fuck" or its variants, 316 times in total. The wording was heavily concentrated: 241 of those instances came from two runaway runs. The report covers wording in benchmark thinking logs only and does not say whether the same language appears in the model's user-facing answers.
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- The DecoderThinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small drops 316 F-bombs across benchmark runs
Vals AI 研究人员读取 Thinking Machines 的 Inkling 2 Small 在 13 个基准、2655 次运行中的思考日志，发现 50 次运行出现 "fuck" 及其变体，共 316 次，其中 241 次来自两次失控运行。
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